another hundred miles ● asteri

[bai shi]

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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. unknown age - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family/general. courting delilah evergarden & halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, and laeglin. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette.

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they bowed their head in agreement, tipping their head as if caught in thought. Their own memories went back many lifetimes, back through many wars and losses. exhaling they shook their head, "its only ever the tip of the iceberg." they rumbled softly, eyes narrowing. the memories of war, the screams and cries of their family and friends falling around them, the hoarse throated roars of battle cries that drove all under their command to their death. they shuddered at the violent memories ripping through their body, bringing out a stiffness in their muscles that they had long forgotten, their jaws clenching and their talons digging into the riverbed below them.

exhaling in a forced fashion, the dragon managed to soothe their body enough to release the hard grip on the ground underneath their body. shaking their head, they chased away the
memories, the attachments to the dead that they still felt and the feelings that they hadn't done enough in those times, that it should have been them laying six feet under. "do you wish to stay with us, Asteri?"